Vegetable-cutter



1. w. STleKLER.

Vegetable Cutter.

Patentedilapy 1860i 7 STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH vv. sTIoxLnR, or ORANGE, NEW JERSEY;

vEeETABLE-CUTTER."

spcification of Letters Patent No. 26,714, dated January s,` leso.`

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH W. STIoxLnR,

of Orange, in the county `of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Machine for the Cutting of Vegetables for Agricultural Purposes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being made to the annexed drawing, making a part of this specification.

The vegetable cutters ordinarily employed are too expensive to come into as general use as is desirable, since` they are usually constructed to do the amount of Work necessary Where a large number of cattle are kept. These implements arehorvever quite as useful in the smaller Way, and my invention affords a readymethod of constructing one which can be made at but little cost, While it `does the Work actually `better `than by those hitherto in use, and can `be made of any size.

I construct an oblong box of Wood or metal as seen in the annexed drawingat A, and across this, at the top, I place a series of thin knives (o) at say an inch apart, as shown, and immediately under these I place one or more similar knives lengthwise, as seen at (o). A cover (el) is hinged upon the side of the box and this has upon its under surface projecting blocks (e) which should nearly lill the spaces between the knives (o), If now a number fof the carrots orother` 3 i vegetables to be cut `are `placed upon they" knives, and thecoverbebrought down means of its handlethevegetables will be 13 forced down `betweenfthe .kniyesg being` l e .broken as Well ascut, by the action ofthe@ blocks (e). The loweryknife (e) or lmives,;..1 effect a further division of the `massand thel operation may `be continued until tliede 1 sii-ed quantity has been prepared.

It will be seen thatfacheap, simpleanelli efficacious machine can be thus constructedfl l adequate to the requirements of those who keep but few as Well as thosewho keep many cattle being capable lof beingextended `in:`

size to any degree required.

If necessary to avoidclogging, thecoveij f y "Qi (al) may have slots cutthrough-it between the projecting blocks andinnnediatelyover the knives.

I claim- The series of tion with the projecting pblocks `uponthe Witnesses: A p y J. P. Pnzssomy l S. I-I. MAYNARD;

cutting `knives in "combina-` 55 cover arrangedin the manner andfor' the., l y purposes substantially as described hereinu,l l 

